{"id":3943,"date":"2011-10-07T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2012-12-30T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T22:51:33","slug":"permission-to-buzz-the-tower-the-blue-angels-practice-over-san-francisco-for-fleet-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2011\/10\/07\/permission-to-buzz-the-tower-the-blue-angels-practice-over-san-francisco-for-fleet-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission to buzz the tower? &#8211; The Blue Angels practice over San Francisco for Fleet Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes things just work out great. The rainy weather cleared up just in time for a golf team photo on the 17th tee at <a title=\"Lincoln Park golf course - San Francisco, CA - featuring spectacular views of the Bay Area.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lincolnparkgc.com\/Lincoln_Park\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Park<\/a> golf course and just after the photo shoot was done the Navy <a title=\"Precision flying by the Navy Blue Angels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blueangels.navy.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Angels<\/a> started practicing for their Fleet Week shows this weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The actual line from the movie <a title=\"The blockbuster Movie Top Gun made in 1986 featured Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_Gun\" target=\"_blank\">Top Gun<\/a> is, &#8220;Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby&#8221;. Which gets the reply from the tower, &#8220;Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full&#8221;. That of course didn&#8217;t stop Tom Cruise aka &#8220;Maverick&#8221; from buzzing the tower. Here the Blue Angels are seen going vertical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Blue Angels going Vertical in Practice for Fleet Week San Francisco\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Angels-Practice-for-Fleet-Week-San-Francisco-01.jpg\" alt=\"Four Blue Angel jets going vertical\" width=\"727\" height=\"806\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since they couldn&#8217;t &#8220;buzz the tower&#8221;, the six Blue Angel jets do a fly by over the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"The six Navy Blue Angel jets fly by the Golden Gate Bridge during practice for San Francisco's Fleet Week\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Angels-Practice-for-Fleet-Week-San-Francisco-02.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Angels \" width=\"838\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The four Blue Angel Boeing F\/A-18 Hornets fly in formation with their landing gear and tail hooks down with the clouds from the recent storm adding interesting colors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Blue Angel jets fly in formation with landing gear and tailhook down in practice for San Francisco's Fleet Week\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Angels-Practice-for-Fleet-Week-San-Francisco-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes things just work out great. The rainy weather cleared up just in time for a golf team photo on the 17th tee at Lincoln Park golf course and just after the photo shoot was done the Navy Blue Angels started practicing for their Fleet Week shows this weekend. The actual line from the movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[915,913,133,914,921,916,920,919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}